lighten the install, no .dump files

chromatic chromatic at wgz.org
Sat Oct 9 17:25:36 UTC 2010


On Saturday 09 October 2010 at 07:57, Allison Randal wrote:

> 9 MB of .dump files may not seem like much, until you realize that our
> total install size is 39 MB. Of the remaining bulk, we've got:
> 
> - 14 MB for libparrot.a
> - 8 MB for libparrot.so.<version>
> - 4 MB for lib/parrot/<version>/library (PIR libraries, and their
> compiled PBC)
> - 2 MB for lib/parrot/<version>/tools (Perl libraries, Perl and PIR scripts)

Several of the Perl libraries are (probably) unnecessary.  Do we also need to 
install the static library?  Do those sizes count debugging symbols, or does 
the install process strip them?

-- c


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